What are the career options if I have geography and what are the best colleges for that?

Hello Samaita.

Choosing Geography as a career option is a smart move in today's time. Being a vast and rapidly growing field, it has and is coming up with a lot of future job opportunities.

If you go for higher studies in this field you can do a bachelor's degree in Geography. The eligibility criteria for it is that you must have completed you 10+2 in arts or science and then go on with geography as a course.

Usually the cut off varies for different institutions but roughly it is above 85% and there are no entrance exams for this. Candidates are selected on the basis of marks obtained in 12th standard. The usual course duration is 3 years.

The options in the undergraduate program are:

• B.Sc. Geography
• B.Sc.(Hons) Geography
• B.A. Geography
• B.A.(Hons) Geography
• Integrated B.Sc+M.Sc Geography

The career options after completion of the course are:

• Climatologist
• Geography teacher
• Research associate in an environment related project
• Urban planners
• Cartographers
• Meteorologist
• Water conservation officer
• Soil conservationist
• Pollution analyst
• Travel and Tourism Planner and advisor

Colleges for this course, to name a few, are :

• Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi
• Jadhavpur University, Kolkata
• Presidency University, Kolkata
• Aligarh Muslim University
• Central University of Karnataka
• Dayal Singh College, Delhi
• Nalanda Open University
• Ashutosh College, Kolkata
• Savitribai Phule Pune University
• Madras Christian College
• University of Raajasthan
• University of MUmbai. Kalina
• MS University, Baroda

I hope my points have answered your question.